Research Associate

**Salary**: £34,866 to £45,163 per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date: 22 November 2024

**The Role**

Do you have a passion for leveraging cutting-edge AI techniques to improve healthcare? Are you highly skilled in machine learning and keen to develop and use your expertise, working in an interdisciplinary team with multi-modal data? If yes, we want someone like you for the role of post-doctoral research associate on EYESAVE: AI-enabled triage for Glaucoma, a new project led by Newcastle University, funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust.

You will work as the primary postdoctoral research associate, within a highly collaborative team including computer scientists, bioengineers, informaticians, neuroscientists, ophthalmologists, and epidemiologists, working across Newcastle University, Durham University, and local NHS hospitals.

Your contributions will include curating multi-modal datasets, designing AI methods for information fusion and risk stratification, and devising interpretable visualisations of the AI’s decision-making process. You will take part in regular project meetings, present and discuss results, and help guide the research direction and decisions. You will contribute to publications and conference presentations, as well as, where appropriate, help supervise Masters and doctoral students working on related projects with the team.

This project builds on the OCTAHEDRON and OCTage projects (OCTAHEDRON | OCTAHEDRON | Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk)), and interacts with other projects underway within our active and successful AI in the Eye research group, linking clinicians, academics, patients, and practitioners, across levels from trainee to senior investigator. We are proud to promote career development and specialist training for all members of the team.

In this full-time role, you will be based at our Newcastle upon Tyne campus that has excellent transport links and state of the art facilities. You will have working space and resources in both the Biosciences Institute in the Faculty of Medical Sciences and the School of Computing at Newcastle Helix. We are happy to discuss flexible working needs with you.

This post is fixed term to the 05.01.2028.

As part of our commitment to career development for research colleagues, the University has developed 3 levels of research role profiles. These profiles set out firstly the generic competences and responsibilities expected of role holders at each level and secondly the general qualifications and experiences needed for entry at a particular level.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Although working under the general guidance of an academic or Principal Investigator, the postholder will contribute ideas, including enhancements to the technical or methodological aspects of their studies, thus providing substantial 'added value'
- Develop and carry out the specified project using appropriate techniques and equipment as outlined in the personal requirements
- Determine appropriate methodologies for research, with advice and support where required
- Begin to write, with appropriate support, proposals for individual research funding or, where funders do not permit this, contribute to the writing of collective bids
- Assess research findings for the need/scope for further investigations
- Contribute to the writing up of their research for publication and dissemination, either through seminar and conference presentations or through publications
- Present research findings, either at conferences or through publications in reputable outlets appropriate to the discipline
- May be involved in the supervision, with guidance, of final year undergraduate research projects and in providing support to postgraduate research students or Research Assistants
- Will need to work with the support staff and, on occasions, with undergraduate and postgraduate students, and interact intellectually with other academic members of the Institute.
- May contribute to events celebrating the public engagement of science/social sciences/humanities
- Develop an awareness of University structures, policies and procedures and relevant issues in the higher education, research, social and political environment
- Keep abreast of new, relevant technologies and software, and contribute to communications with key personnel in supply and support companies
- Help to maintain web-based software and data repositories for lab or public access where appropriate (e.g. github repositories)

**The Person**

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**
- Ability to work well as part of a team and rapidly acquire new skills
- Likelihood of advanced skills directly related to the research projects
- High level of analytical and problem-solving capability
- Ability to communicate complex information w